... this theorizing elite and the toiling masses is evident, for example, in the prestige conferred on academic pursuits in Russia and in the long-standing classification of the Soviet population into workers, peasants, and “toiling intelligentsia.” However, the simple distinction between intellectuals and masses...

... Exhibition of Women’s Industries Bristol 1885 stranger’s arrival in suburbs Suburbs Countryside City “Dulham” Middle class Masses Elite Modernity She learnt to speak with horror of Suburbia. — E. M. Forster, A Room with a View (1908) Lucy Honeychurch knows that suburbia...

... sympathised. Not with victims of superstitious violence, but with the perpetrators. Indeed, witchcraft troubled many well-to-do folk during the early 1800s. This chapter explores a remarkable area of common ground between the masses, the upper classes, and those in the middle. More often than one might expect...

..., The Masses and The Liberator, campaigned for women’s suffrage, sexual freedom, and peace, and published several volumes of poetry and two books on laughter. A fierce critic of Joseph Stalin, Eastman befriended and translated Leon Trotsky and remained unafraid to express unpopular...

... editorship of The Masses, which he reinvents as a cutting-edge forum for politically motivated art and writing. His son Daniel is born in 1912, to his father’s surprise and mystification. Max publishes Enjoyment of Poetry, his most enduringly successful book, as well as his...

... American involvement in World War I. Along with fellow contributors to The Masses, he survives two trials for obstructing the military recruitment effort and founds The Liberator, with Crystal as co-editor. He pays tribute to Deshon in a second volume of poetry...

...This chapter looks at the shifting of ‘labouring poor’ or ‘lower orders’ into ‘workers’. Far from being passive beings at the foot of the social ladder, the chapter notes that Georgian masses were sharing in the general social ferment—and making their own history. It emphasizes that Britain's...

... of the stereotypical and many lurking dangers among the urban masses. This chapter concludes by exploring how the Georgian towns, embarking upon a period of prolonged urban growth in all three kingdoms, became magnets with an urbane view of their own centrality. armies British empire change exploration painting...